Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [is] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One surviving base is that from North Luffenham , made of a circular piece of wood cut with the grain , 0.2 cm thick , slotted into a groove at the bottom of the staves ; such a method of fixing is common . |
| 2 | Another judge-made rule is that in Tyrrell ( 1894 ) , which provides that a person can not be convicted as a party to an offence if the offence was created for the protection of such persons . |
| 3 | Among the works referred to in this introduction , the other important historical study is that by Jane Lewis in The Politics of Mother-hood ( 1980 ) . |
| 4 | Its theoretical underpinning is that under the right conditions ‘ the central nervous system will restructure itself ’ . |
| 5 | An interesting difference is that in ants the workers are all sterile females , whereas in termites they are sterile males and sterile females . |
| 6 | An interesting point is that in the three leading models , those of Cournot , Bertrand , and Stackelberg , the NE outcomes are identical to those traditionally derived ; only the reasoning underlying the derivation of those equilibria changes . |
| 7 | The old joke is that in the army they once had the message ‘ Send reinforcements we 're going to advance ’ but it became ‘ Send three and fourpence we 're going to a dance . ’ |
| 8 | What distinguishes visionary leadership is that through words and actions , the leader gets the followers to ‘ see ’ his or her vision — to see a new way to think and act — and so to join their leader in realizing it . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most characteristic British example is that in the civitas capital at Silchester , where it was the second largest building in the town after the forum and was situated close to the south gate . |
| 10 | An important aspect of the new Somali operation is that for the first time American soldiers have been prepared to serve under a non-American chief . |
| 11 | The second assumption inherent in climatic geomorphology is that as an attitude it is actualist , i.e. it attributes the landscape to present processes . |
| 12 | The second and for this thesis the more interesting suggestion is that in an otherwise normal driving situation a driver may report ‘ waking up ’ to find that they have no recollection of having driven some previous part of the journey , despite the fact that they completed relatively complex manoeuvres during the period . |
| 13 | A more serious difficulty is that on the theory in question : |
| 14 | A more straightforward case is that concerning Jack Straw 's Castle , which was listed after a scheme was submitted to cover the courtyard with a new restaurant . |
| 15 | An additional difficulty is that on occasion the layout does not help . |
| 16 | An important general finding of the inner-city research is that in most of the linguistic variables quantified , there is a contextual style difference for all twelve groups of speakers , and there is also a sex-based difference . |
| 17 | My personal philosophy is that by backing them — although a number will fall — some will grow , develop , float and become world class . ’ |
| 18 | Thus it may be said ( stage one ) that fundamental to the biblical outlook is that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek , nor bond nor free , no more male and female . |
| 19 | Doing so , my overall conclusion is that for the reasons set out above there do not exist here sufficient grounds for setting aside the demand . |
| 20 | My personal opinion is that for the Tosh 1000XE the original MS-DOS 3.3 is the best operating system . |
| 21 | The chief difference is that in practical problems the material facts often lie buried in a much larger mass of immaterial detail , while the examination problem contains comparatively little beyond the material facts . |
| 22 | The central point is that by controlling the moving pictures of dissent , governments believe that they can not only minimize the dissent itself but also completely remove the major source of criticism . |
| 23 | The simple truth is that for the duration of the tours rugby became the political football in the power-broking struggle currently being played out between the various factions in South African politics . |
| 24 | The simple truth is that in public buildings , in the streets ( and even in the House of Commons ) , there just are n't enough women 's loos to go around and this begs the equally simple question : why ? |
| 25 | An additional factor is that in speaking English we vary in how rhythmically we speak : sometimes we speak very rhythmically ( this is typical of some styles of public speaking ) while at other times we speak arhythmically ( that is , without rhythm ) — for example , when we are hesitant or nervous . |
| 26 | The advantage of this rather simple procedure is that in a batch of ( let us say ) a thousand tokens the anomalous patterning of particular lexical items becomes evident . |
| 27 | The central belief is that by being immersed in , and contributing to , the life of reason , one can attain a truer level of understanding and perspective on the world than is ordinarily available through personal experience . |
| 28 | One obvious limitation of local authority-run centres is that unlike the independent centres they can not help local authority tenants and homeless applicants fight legal battles against the authority . |
| 29 | In fact my real belief is that in the troubles ahead of us connected with labour we are moving very fast in the direction of revolution ; and though you will consider my hope a baseless one I still entertain it — that it is by Tariff Reform that we might , so to speak , get the train at least shifted on to other lines . |
| 30 | Instead , Sisson maintains that the real reason is that in Britain multi-employer bargaining has increasingly been found to be incapable of performing what employers regard as its major function , namely the neutralisation of the workplace from the activities of trade unions . |